. Elementary textbook of economic zoology and entomology. Zoology; Insect pests. DOMESTICATED ANIMALS 323 or pleasing or curious to us but not better fitted to survive in nature. In fact, most of these artificially induced changes tend to unfit the animal for success in life unaided by man; they are mostly degenerative changes. The loss of flight, the shortening of legs, the over-development of fat, the production of crests and plumes and ruffs, the loss of horns, the sluggishness and helplessness that characterize the domestic animals of different. FIG. 137.—Assyrian hunters with great dogs;
. Elementary textbook of economic zoology and entomology. Zoology; Insect pests. DOMESTICATED ANIMALS 323 or pleasing or curious to us but not better fitted to survive in nature. In fact, most of these artificially induced changes tend to unfit the animal for success in life unaided by man; they are mostly degenerative changes. The loss of flight, the shortening of legs, the over-development of fat, the production of crests and plumes and ruffs, the loss of horns, the sluggishness and helplessness that characterize the domestic animals of different. FIG. 137.—Assyrian hunters with great dogs; from an Assyrian wall relief of 668 , now in the British Museum. (After Keller.) kinds, are all characters and conditions of degeneration. As an outcome of the modern great interest and activity in the methods and results of producing new races and types of domesticated animals, the history of the origin of many of the more widespread and useful of these animal races has been unravelled. The following paragraphs give in briefest possible form some interesting facts about the origin of our more familiar animal Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Kellogg, Vernon L. (Vernon Lyman), 1867-1937; Doane, Rennie Wilbur, 1871-. New York, H. Holt and company
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